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> If you truly wish to be helpful, please direct your boundless generative energy toward a repository you personally own and maintain.

This is a habit humans could learn from. Publishing a fork is easier than ever. If you aren’t using your own code in production you shouldn’t expect anyone else to.

If anyone at GitHub is out there. Look at the stats for how many different projects on average that a user PRs a day (that they aren’t a maintainer of). My analysis of a recent day using gharchive showed 99% 1, 1% 2, 0.1% 3. There are so few people PRing 5+ repos I was able to review them manually. They are all bots/scripts. Please rate limit unregistered bots.

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